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It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

E. M. Forster
Love, Romantic, Romance
E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.166, Courier Corporation

Love is always being given where it is not required.

E. M. Forster
Love, Love Is, Literature
Selected Letters: Letter 137, to Syed Ross Masood, December 5, 1914.

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

E. M. Forster
Love, Mean, People
E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.

E. M. Forster
Love, Equality, Want
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.148, Delphi Classics

Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer

E. M. Forster
Love, Passion, Fragments
Howards End (1910) ch. 22 (the title-page also has "Only connect...")

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

E. M. Forster
Love, College, Oxford
E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.96, Xist Publishing

God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

E. M. Forster
Love, God, Power

She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

E. M. Forster
Love, Passion, Men
Howards End (1910) ch. 22 (the title-page also has "Only connect...")

Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.

E. M. Forster
Love, Taken, Soul
E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.63, Courier Corporation

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard -it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

E. M. Forster
Love, Men, Ideas

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